Bicycle attachment



Oct. '28. 1924. r I 1,513,165

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UNITED STATES THOMAS MATTHEW EXUM, or FULTON, KENTUCKY.

BICYCLE ATTACHMENT.

Application filed September 30, 1922. SerialNo. 591,610.

ing designed or adapted to function as a 111 a e-carrier alsofor othercar in ure g 7 ZY poses, as well as riding purposes.

the use of light structural frame-work, which may be considered as of askeletonized character, and inexpensive in manufacture and ready ofapplication to a bicycle of anytype or make, while in construction, itis readily adaptable of being carried out at the mimmum outlay orexpenditure of labor.

Other objects of the invention will beapparent from the followingdescription and accompanying drawing thereof, as will be appreciated andunderstood together with the first-recited statement of objects.

The invention consists, therefore, of cer- 3o fully disclosed anddefined by the appended claims. 1 p

In the accompanying drawing is illuse trated the preferred or oneembodiment of my invention, wherein it will beunderstood that Variouschanges and modifications as to the detailed construction andarrangement of parts may be made without departing from the spirit orscope of the invention as covered by the claims, and in which drawing:Fig; 1 is a perspective view showing a bicycle, with luggage carrierattachment applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detached perspective viewof myinvention. p

I11 putting my invention into practice, I use a frame-work 1,approximately rectangular, as shown, to provide for conveniently'lnounting thereupon a container, forlug'l The invention has for itsobject primarily to provide for extreme simpliclty and.

tain instrumentalities and features of con-' v jment to the bicycle, atrack-wheel-axle apstruction substantially as hereinafter more gage,articlesof merchandise, etc., or to provide for ridingpurposes, as maybe desired. Frame 1 is of such transverse section that. it will readilyaccommodatethe container thereupon, the fran'iel having perforations 1provided therethrough to receive" fastenings 1 for suitably fasteningthe container thereon. The frame; 1 is provided with attaching elements,as, for instance, a formed rod 3, a rear brace 4:, alateral brace 5,cross- 7 braces 6, and an axle 7. The axle 7 carriesthe ztrackavheel 8,as is well known,-as'aid axle having bearings in the lateral members ofthe frame 1, with the end opposite the wheelrcarryin'g end passedthrough the lateral frame member, and'nut-equipped to be held thereat.The frame 1 on the inner side, is contracted, to form a bearing for oneend i ofthe bicycle axle 10, the bicycle and the side-carryingattachment, together withlthe track wheel and .its axle, thus mutuallyreinforcing each other. v

I claim:

'1. In a side-carrying bicycle, a frame attachment, a container, saidattachment being of generally rectangular type and adapted to functionas a carrier for said container, said. attachment being provided with;bracing attaching members for its attachso" plied to'said attachment,with the endthere of opposite its wheel-carrying-end bearing.

in the distant portion ofsaid frame attach I ment, the latter having anattenuated por p I tion extended beyond the plane of an edge ing for-theaxle of the bicycle.

thereof and adaptedto function as a b'ear-v V i In a bicycle rier. orthe 1 acter described, a main frame formedQof a 9o single bent bar theframe having its .pors

7 tion nearest "the bicycle contracted,the two I ends of the bar meetingand overlapping at. v theend of saidicontracted portion to form f aframeof double thickness at that -pointg9 5; adapted to form a bearingfor theaxle'off the bicycle, one of the endsof the bar 'be-J' ing adapted toextend beyondthe contracted portion toflformwa brace, and a wheel at-flI +1.0

tachedto said frame.

' 3(In a bicycle side carrier of the character clescribed,a main frameformed ofa if i single bent bar, a traek Wheel axle carried ing a frameof double thickness at that by said frame and having its end opposite topoint adapted to form a bearing for the the Wheel carrying end bearinginthe disaxle of the bicycle. 10

tant portion of the frame, said frame hav- In testimony whereof heaflixes his signaing a contracted portion, the tWo ends of the tui'e.bar meeting and overlapping to form the end of said contracted portionthereby mak- THOMAS MATTHEW E'XUM.

